Hasbro Asia Transformers Power of the Primes Volcanicus Box Set

Lore Keeper wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

NTESHFT wrote:I hope Emerge is right and Repugnus is from a Titans Return mold. Would go great with the other 2 for sure.

I'm also hoping for the best with Punch/Counterpunch. Heres to having my fingers double-crossed......

Ah ha! I see what you did there.
I'm sure Counterpunch will double cross more than your fingers.

I'm hoping Repugnus is a TR mold too. I'd think they would retool the same base mold used for Twinferno and Grotusque. I'd be fine with that.
The only other logicall option I could see is a retool of Ripper Snapper. That would be ok, but I'd prefer the TR option.

I share your preference, but it seems unlikely that he'll be anything but a combiner limb. Hasbro has been very strict about not breaking from play patterns in the Prime Wars Trilogy. The fact that Blastoff is apparently coming with a HFG instead of Prime Armor is already a huge deviation from the norm.

He will probably be double crossing my wallet lil.....

Is Blastoff the only one of the Combaticons coming in this line? I have seen or heard nothing about the others myself unless I missed it on the board....

NTESHFT wrote:Is Blastoff the only one of the Combaticons coming in this line? I have seen or heard nothing about the others myself unless I missed it on the board....

Blast Off is the only one, as he was "the wrong vehicle" back in Combiner Wars, and this is Hasbro's offer to rectify that. The rest of Combaticons will not see a re-release, which is a shame. A perfect opportunity to fix Brawl

Wow. The idea of Doubleheader with two titan masters is a really cool idea.

We still need to see a Doubledealer cranked out for this line, too. My hopes aren't high, though.

Counterpunch would be fine with a cool "new twist" of two titan masters... but I hope they at least find some figure where you can change the look by flipping front to back. After two flawed versions, it would be nice to have one version knocked out of the park.

I think troop builders are the other missed opportunity for titan masters.... like, Wreck Gar could come with two or three heads or they could be included as an on-the-shelf single pack titan master. The could even do a rolling paint or plastic color change through the wave, or some add on weapons or armor that would change the look of the figure enough to display differently on the shelf and encourage multiple purchases.

Takara found a way to let us troop build sweeps, but I wish we could see that stateside to cut down costs. (That's kind of the point with troop building.)

mordhelm wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Blast Off is the only one, as he was "the wrong vehicle" back in Combiner Wars, and this is Hasbro's offer to rectify that. The rest of Combaticons will not see a re-release, which is a shame. A perfect opportunity to fix Brawl

The Rook mold (Specifically the Nosecode retool) would have made an awesome Brawl. Would we have cared about the mold reuse though?

Funny thing: Rook probably started out as Brawl, as the alternate head of the mold is supposedly that of the Combaticon. It would have seen use as Ironclad, a Technobot and part of the Computron set, with a Legends Afterburner, before Deluxe Groove became a thing.

I would be ok with Rook as Brawl actually, it wouldn't have been the first time Brawl was an APC:

Va'al wrote:According to a listing on Chinese online retailer Tmall, there will be a Hasbro Asia box set release of sorts coming for the Transformers Power of the Primes Volcanicus members - meaning that dinobots Grimlock, Slug, Sludge, Swoop, and Snarl will all be collected in one box. Literally.

Going by the imagery in the listing (which prices the set at 1235 Yuan / 193 USD), the figures will be individually packaged and grouped together in a bigger box, sporting some nice Volcanicus art, plus an added notebook featuring the new dinobot combiner and the Power of the Primes logo. Check out the images below, and let us know what you think of this new take on the 'box set' idea in the Energon Pub Discussion Boards!

As a fan of this form of distribution, I never thought there would be a "Box Set" that did not interest me. But I guess they found a way. The whole point of the "Giftset" idea dating back to the original series, and was reflected well in Unite Warriors, was not only to offer them all for a single price, but to have them display in a unique way as well. Granted Hasbro's Box sets for CW and TR didn't have window boxes, but they were still unique. This is just all the same packaging, just in a fancy Cube. You cannot put the figures back in "display mode" as you could with all the other box sets if wanted. Nope, this is an easy pass for me.

^ Agreed. I posted the notion a while back that some 3P company should create UW styled Window Box packaging for some of these new PotP combiners. I guess using Hasbro's artwork on the front would be problematic, but maybe they just could manufacture the boxes and the inserts and provide a way for fans to print the artwork themselves?

I know we have enough talented artists in our pool of fans that some could be commissioned for the covers.

I'd love to see this for all the other gestalts who never got a box... including Botcon Magnaboss and other oddities like Modulus.

Yes. I realize this is a wild pipe dream.

Which one was modulus again?

You can still find extra Ratchet's on eBay... or substitute a Ratchet from the Unite Warriors set.

And as for making a custom Medix, he IS entirely First Aid mold. Anyone really interested in putting together a Modulus character could throw one together for their Combiner Wars shelf for a grin without too much cost.

I say this knowing custom class WAS all about making customs.

That said, someone should sell me a Medix head. Shoot me a PM.

I was looking again at my PotP Swoop, and I noticed a couple of holes in his waist area.
Those hole don't look to have any function in any modes, but my first thought was that they were supposed to connect to a couple of pegs placed in the inner side of the lower legs to make the leg mode more stable.
Then I noticed that the legs don't have any pegs that would do that.
So has anyone idea the purpouse of those holes?
Since the waist is different, it's not like they were designed for Cutthroat.